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Ollie Pope lingered for a while in the middle of the Adelaide Oval, having been dismissed early on day two of the third Ashes Test. A team man, the crestfallen Pope would have only been thinking about the door he had just unlocked and pushed open for Australia – a door the hosts would spend…

Defending champions Arsenal will set up an all-English quarter-final against Chelsea in the Women’s Champions League if they beat Belgian side Leuven in the play-offs. Women’s Super League champions Chelsea secured automatic qualification for the last eight by finishing in the top four in the league stage alongside Barcelona, Lyon and Bayern Munich. Debutants Manchester…

The Duke of Marlborough has been charged with intentional strangulation. The 70-year-old is accused of attacking the same person in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, three times over an 18-month period. Charles James Spencer-Churchill, formerly known as Jamie Blandford, is a relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales. He is due to appear before Oxford…

Police have arrested two people “for racially aggravated public order offences” after they allegedly “shouted slogans involving calls for intifada” at a pro-Palestinian protest in central London. Five people in total were arrested, including one for obstructing the arrests of people shouting slogans and two more for public order offences, one of which was “racially…

In a further escalation of tension between the United States and Venezuela, President Donald Trump has ordered a naval blockade to stop sanctioned oil tankers from entering and leaving the South American country. Venezuela – which has the world’s largest proven oil reserves – is highly dependent on revenues from its oil exports to finance…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the latest five-day strike by doctors in England is “dangerous and utterly irresponsible” and warned them not to abandon patients. The walkout by resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, began at 07:00 on Wednesday. The British Medical Association (BMA) is asking for a “genuinely long term plan”…

The second season of Fallout – Prime Video’s mega-hit based on the popular video game series – has landed. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where Earth has been ravaged by nuclear war, the first series was a commercial and critical hit, impressing long-time fans and viewers who’d never played before. Its surprising success had a…

Paddy Power Betfair has agreed to pay £2m for failing to step in quickly enough when customers appeared to be problem gambling. The Gambling Commission identified instances where the bookie did not intervene soon enough to customers engaging in harmful gambling behaviour, including when one customer staked £86,000 in just over two weeks but “no…

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a high-stakes, closed door hearing about his two defunct criminal investigations into President Donald Trump. In his opening statement, he told Congress his team “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump “engaged in a criminal scheme” to overturn the 2020 election results.…

Six Canadian members of parliament, along with a delegation of 24 other people, have been denied entry by Israel to the occupied West Bank while trying to cross the border from Jordan. The group was attempting to enter as part of a trip to Israel and the West Bank sponsored by non-profit organisation The Canadian-Muslim…